King City Police Jail

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The King City Police Jail is located at 415 Bassett Street in King City, CA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the King City Police Department.

This site tells you all the information about everything one might want to know about the King City Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate at the King City Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, how to find your court records, and lots more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give you all the information you need to make going to jail a little less stressful. If you have a specific question, just ask it, and please leave any comments or tips that might be a benefit to other people in the same situation would be appreciated.

King City Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The King City Police Jail Inmate Lookup is a list of people who are in jail, which includes custody status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can find information on anybody who has been arrested or discharged within the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by their last name. You can find their inmate information quicker if you enter the arrestee’s full name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

King City Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the King City Police Jail includes each of these steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If the jail is really busy, you may not be processed immediately.

First, you have to answer some basic questions, such as what is your legal name, address, birth date and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will get taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will then be allowed to use the telephone to get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might get to wear your street clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be discharged from jail. This process will take from 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. In simple terms, the faster you post bail, the sooner you will get let go. Also, it will depend on whether or not you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if the judge has to determine how much to set your bail at. For minor offenses, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have completed your jail sentence and are given a date of your release, plan to be discharged in the morning.

King City Police Jail Visitation

Inmates have to provide each visitor’s full name to the King City Police Jail before anyone can visit them. This information will be put in the visitors log for the inmate. Each and every visitor will be required to provide proof of identification. Anyone arriving late or that is not on the visitation list will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at King City Police Jail frequently change, so make sure that you call the official King City Police Jail at 831-385-4848 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the King City Police Jail you must first be on the inmate’s visitation list.

Be sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID with you to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter.

No phones are allowed at King City Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Anybody currently on must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Such visitation is not normally approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 and is a family member of the inmate, they will have to be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate’s extended family. If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is not a family member of the inmate, the minor visitor must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Sending Mail to Inmates

This is what you need to know about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the King City Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the King City Police Jail is always searched and inspected for contraband that might threaten the security, safety or well-being of the facility, its staff, and inmates. Inmates can only receive metered, unstamped, plain white postcards no larger than 4″ x 6″ as mail. The writing on the postcard has to be in pencil or blue or black ink. If it has a stamp on it, it will get returned. If you write in green ink, then it will get returned. If you send any other kind of mail will be returned to the sender. If there is no return address on it, then the unauthorized mail will be stored in the inmate’s locker until the inmate gets release.

Do not include any of these things in the mail that you send to an inmate: any kind of threat to jail order, any description of the manufacture of weapons, bombs, incendiary devices, or tools for escape; do not encourage or advocate any kind of violence, hate speech, or racial or ethnic supremacy. Inmates are not allowed to write to other inmates.

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Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the King City Police Jail. This includes sending money for to spend in the commissary, sending regular mail or photos, sending money for phone calls, and even postcards.

This page covers everthing you need to know about the King City Police Jail to help you follow these procedures and guidelines. If you have questions, or there is something that you were looking for, but did not find, please contact us using the contact link in the site menu.

Public Records

Warrant Inquiry

If you think you have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can access arrest warrants on the Monterey County jail website or call the jail directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and inquire at the information desk. You should know that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, either by phone, go there in person, or look online. An arrest is in the public record and these records are available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a court case file containing a docket and all documents and filings filed in your court case. You can access your court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the Monterey County Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of a person’s criminal background. These databases are linked together and you can track criminal convictions from other states. You can go to county courthouse and check in person, or check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that the crime was in a totally different state, you may have to pay for a more complete search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you can get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for DUI, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to King City Police Jail inmates are always changing, so double check the King City Police Jail site before you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at King City Police Jail

You will have your own ‘bank account’ while in jail. This money is used to purchase items from the Commissary. Family and friends can deposit money into this account for you, and any money you earn while in prison will also be deposited into your account. Outside money can be paid in to your account via a money order, cash or check. If someone sends a check or money order, make sure that they write your inmate ID on it. The maximum amount you are allowed in your account is $290 per month.

Guidelines For Sending Money To An Inmate

Before you send any money you should find out what online money transfer companies the jail your inmate is incarcerated in uses. The exact method that the King City Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 831-385-4848 to get the current payment method.

You may be required to be on the inmate’s visitation list in order to send them money, and be aware that they may have a limit on how much you deposit at one time, like $200-300 at a time, or a limit on how much money may be in the inmate’s account at one time.

Some of the money transfer firms being used by various facilities include JPay, MoneyGram, AccessCorrections, OffenderConnect, Touchpayonline, JailATM, WU, smartdeposit, and tigercommissary.

If an inmate has fines or are required to pay restitution then they will be subject to garnishment of their commissary/trust account. If the inmate has a garnishment, then money to pay them will be taken from the inmate’s bank account. In some cases it may be a percentage or the entire amount of the obligation, but the actual percentage depends on the circumstances. We recommend that inmates talk to the counselor at their facility and try to find out. You can also try to make an arrangement so that only a percentage of your commissary funds are taken, instead of all your funds take at one time.

Commissary

The commissary is the King City Police Jail store. You can purchase several different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates can purchase if they have money in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as personal hygiene products such as soap, shampoo, and disposable razors for shaving. The commissary also sells other things like books and magazines, televisions and radios, playing cards, headphones, MP3 players, and electronic tablets. They also sell everything need to write home to family, friends, and loved ones: paper, envelopes, and stamps. If an inmate is indigent and cannot afford paper and stamps, the jail will provide these things to an inmate who has not had any money in their commissary account for at least 30 days.

Phone Calls & Phone Usage Policy

The only phone calls that King City Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Jail phone calls are much more expensive than phone calls made at home. Phone calls are restricted on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates should keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you are disciplined for an infraction, an inmate’s phone privileges might get reduced or eliminated altogether.

The King City Police Jail phone number is: 831-385-4848

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate, which means that they they control the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of all of the inmate phone calls are split with the facility, so there is no incentive for the jail or the counselors at the facility to show inmates or their family how to save money on inmate phone calls at the King City Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These three things will determine how much an inmate phone call will cost: Where you are located; Where your inmate is located, What type of phone number you have.

For example, if your inmate is in federal prison, if you get a new local number then this will decrease your inmate’s phone call rate from $.21 per minute to only $.06 per minute.

For the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails finding out how to decrease your inmates phone charges is more difficult. ArrestedResources.com is an expert in keeping up with all of the changes that affect your inmate’s rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money on how much it costs you to call your inmate. In some cases, we will not be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail has set their phone call rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at King City Police Jail, click the link below.

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